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Date:      Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:55:26 +0100
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>
To:        Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, "Richard E. Hawkins" <dochawk@psu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, marcel@FreeBSD.ORG, "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>
Subject:   Re: Could not get address for /dev/vmnet1: Invalid argument
Message-ID:  <200111161058.fAGAwbV50666@peedub.muc.de>
In-Reply-To: <200111152054.aa71745@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
References:  <200111152054.aa71745@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>

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On Thursday 15 November 2001 21:54, Ian Dowse wrote:
> In message <200111142032.aa79929@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>, Ian 
Dowse writes:

> work. VMware also performs ioctls 0x89f2 and 0x89f6 on
> /dev/vmnet1; I don't know what these are supposed to do.
>

vmware-distrib/vmnet-only/driver.c:
SIOCSLADRF (0x89F2) - set logical address filter  (for 
filtering multicast packets)

vmware-distrib/vmnet-only/vnet.h:
#define SIOCSETMACADDR    (SIOCDEVPRIVATE+6) which is 0x89f6

God only knows about the details of the implementation.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org

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